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I am an Associate Professor at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki Finland. I have been researching the changing landscape towards openness in scholarly publishing by studying combinations of bibliometrics, web metrics, business models, science policy, and author behavior for over 10 years. I defended my PhD thesis on the subject of Open Access journal publishing in 2014.
In addition to teaching, supervision, and research I see societal impact as very important part of my work, thus I frequently give public talks and am involved in various national and international groups. I recently served as a member of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 expert group on Future of Scholarly Publishing and scholarly Communication which published its final report in February 2019. In recent years I have also been involved in preparing reports for the Harvard Library Office of Scholarly Communication, The Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland, and the Association of Scholarly Publishers in Finland.
Regarding my current societal engagements I am a member of the strategy group coordinating open science development in Finland. Related to this work I am also chairing a working group looking into financial aspects of international journal publishing in the context of Finland. Further I am a member of the strategy group for negotiations with journal publishers on behalf of the Finnish university library consortium (FinElib). I am a member of the advisory board for intellectual property , appointed by the Ministry of Education and Culture. I am a panel member of the Finnish Publication Forum , which is a rating and classification system supporting the assessment of research outputs on a large scale. I am also deputy member of the steering group of the National Library of Finland.
At Hanken School of Economics I am currently member of the board for Research and University Services, the Department Council, the Research Ethics Committee, and the Examination Board (deputy).
I am the editor-in-chief of the journal Informaatiotutkimus, and a member of the editorial boards of the journal Publications and Helsinki University Press. I am on the advisory board of the blog Elephant in the Lab.
Research and teaching information
Mikael has been teaching on the following courses at Hanken:
- 2558 Project Management (8 ECTS)
- 2572 Management Information Systems (8 ECTS)
Main teacher 2014 & 2016
- 1136-1 Informatics (3 ECTS)
Main teacher 2013, 2015-2019
- 2546 Computer Programming (6 ECTS)
Main teacher 2017-2019
Education information
Doctor of Science (Economics and Business Administration), Business Economics, Hanken School of Economics, Finland, 2014
Keywords
- 113 Computer and information sciences
- 512 Business and Management
- 518 Media and communications
- 222 Other engineering and technologies
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Research Output
Opening academic publishing - Development and application of systematic evaluation criteria
Björk, A., Paavola, J-M., Ropponen, T., Laakso, M. & Lahti, L., 2018, Open Science and Research Initiative. 41 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › Professional
Open Access
File
Hybrid Open Access – a longitudinal study
Laakso, M. & Björk, B-C., 09.2016, In : Journal of Informetrics. 10, 4, p. 919-932Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
File
How Subscription-based Scholarly Journals Can Convert to Open Access: A Review of Approaches
Laakso, M., Solomon, D. & Björk, B-C., 19.09.2016, In : Learned Publishing. 29, 4, p. 259–269 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
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Journal copyright restrictions and actual open access availability - a study of articles published in eight top information systems journals (2010-2014)
Laakso, M. & Lindman, J., 2016, In : Scientometrics : an international journal for all quantitative aspects of the science of science, communication in science and science policy. 109, 2, p. 1167–1189 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
File
Green open access policies of scholarly journal publishers: a study of what, when, and where self-archiving is allowed
Laakso, M., 2014, In : Scientometrics : an international journal for all quantitative aspects of the science of science, communication in science and science policy. 99, 2, p. 475-494 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
File
Datasets
Reverse flip open access journals
Matthias, L. (Creator), Jahn, N. (Creator), Laakso, M. (Creator), Zenodo, 30.01.2019
Dataset
Web tracking data for 500 websites popular among Finnish web users
Bailey, J. (Creator), Laakso, M. (Creator), Nyman, L. (Creator), Zenodo, 15.11.2019
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Prizes
Activities
European Commission (External organisation)
Mikael Laakso (Expert member)10.2017 → 12.2018
Activity: Membership › Membership in special-interest organisation
Avoimen Tieteen kansallisen koordinaation strategiaryhmä / Strategy group for the national coordination of open science (External organisation)
Mikael Laakso (Expert member)10.2018 → …
Activity: Membership › Membership in special-interest organisation
Helsinki University Press (External organisation)
Mikael Laakso (Board member)06.2018 → …
Activity: Membership › Membership in academic committee, council, board
National Library of Finland (External organisation)
Mikael Laakso (Board member)01.04.2018 → 31.03.2022
Activity: Membership › Membership in public organization
Julkaisufoorumi (External organisation)
Mikael Laakso (Expert member)2018 → 2021
Activity: Membership › Membership in special-interest organisation
Press / Media
Muutoksen on lähdettävä ruohonjuuritasolta” – haastattelussa avoimen tieteen moniottelija Mikael Laakso
07.03.2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Saalistajajulkaisut houkuttelevat tutkijoita
15.11.2018
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Sciences : les fausses études envahissent le web (Science: false studies invade the web)
27.07.2018
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Vinstlystna förlag hotar vetenskapen - men öppen publicering på kommande
03.07.2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Vinstlystna förlag hotar vetenskapen - men öppen publicering på kommande
03.07.2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media